Maritime authorities in France have reported that an explosion and a subsequent fire has left three people injured on board a foreign-flagged commercial vessel off the co ..
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Three crew members of the 8,000 TEU container ship MSC Rachele have been injured after an explosion in the engine room of the vessel on the morning of 21 June.
The boxship was sailing from Napoli, Italy to the Fos-sur-Mer Port in France, when the explosion caused a fire on board and led MSC Rachele to lose power.
The three injured seafarers were airlifted and have been taken to hospital with two of them evacuated to the Sainte-Anne military hospital in Toulon, France and the third to the...
Three crew members sustained injuries from an explosion in the engine room of an MSC containership in the western Mediterranean Sea off the coast of France on Tuesday. Two of…
https://gcaptain.com/engine-room-explosion-msc-rachele-containership/
MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company set a record on 24 November for the heaviest container vessel that has ever entered the Port of Melbourne.
The 8,500 TEU container ship MSC Rachele successfully berthed at Swanson Dock East with a maximum arrival draught of 14.0 mt and an arrival displacement of 123,900 tons.
This achievement is set in the context of exceptionally strong import container trade volumes into Australia, particularly...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/msc-rachele-smashes-records-at-melbourne/